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Awards

Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Film: “As Simple As This” produced by Seyyed Reza Mirkarimi
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Director: Majid Majidi for “The Song of Sparrows”
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Screenplay: “As Simple As This” jointly written by Seyyed Reza Mirkarimi and Shadmehr Rastin
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Actor: Amin Hayai (“Night”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Actress: Hengameh Ghaziani (“As Simple As This”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Supporting Actor: Mohsen Tanabandeh (“A Testimonial For God”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Supporting Actress: Mahtab Nasirpour (“The Son Of Soil”)

Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Film: “The Third Day” produced by Alireza Jalali
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Director: Mohammad-Hossein Latifi for “The Third Day” and Amir-Shahab Razavian for “Mina of the Silent City”
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Screenplay: “Mainline” jointly written by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Farid Mostafavi, Mohsen Abdolvahhab, and Naghmeh Samini
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Actor: Bahram Radan (“The Santur Player”)
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Actress: Baran Kowsari (“Mainline” and “The Third Day”)

Crystal Simorgh for best screenplay to “Blue Swallow” directed by Yoon Jong-chan
Crystal Simorgh for best director to “Hi-Bi: Days of Fire” by Banmei Takahashi
Crystal Simorgh for best film to “The Night Bus” By Kiumars Purahmad

Crystal Simorgh prize for Best Short Narrative Film to Rain is Falling, directed by Holger Ernst from Germany.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Technical or Artistic Achievement to the film Downfall directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from Germany.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Performance to Mohammad Reza Foroutan for the film Slowly Directed by Maziar Miri, Iran.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Script to Mani Haqiqi for Men at Work, Iran.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Direction to Gianni Amelio for the film The Keys to the House, Italy.
Crystal Simorgh of Special Jury Prize to Bashing, directed by Kobayashi Masahiro, Japan.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Film to Slowly, directed by Maziar Miri, Iran.

Crystal Simorgh Prize of Best Script for the film Zozo, directed by Josef Fares, Sweden.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Direction to Tae Hyung Im, director of the film Little Brother, Korea.
Crystal Simorgh prize for Best Film to When Everybody was asleep, directed by Fereidoun Hassanpour, Iran.

Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Script to Mitsuhiro Mihara for the film The Village Album, Japan.
Crystal Simorgh Prize for Best Direction to Ma Liwen , director of the film You and Me, China.
Crystal Simorgh prize for Best Film to In the Name of the Father, directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia, Iran.